New truck?

When people get a new vehicle, they go to great lengths to protect that vehicle, and I don't blame them. I guess I have a realist attitude, my thought is, it's probably going to get scratched at some point. I'm not parking in a field in Illinois so I can be sure that when I go into the store, that nobody will scratch my paint. For those that do, more power to you. If there is a space at the back of the lot and you want to hike it to the mall with your backpack and tent, be my guess. My question is, at what point do you decide to NOT do that anymore? There has to be a time when you say, screw it, I'm not catching a cab from the mall parking lot to the door anymore. When does that occur? After the first scratch? After the first year? After it's paid off? Somebody please help me here. There are some people that decide they are just going to go ahead and park sideways and take up several spots, so you won't be able to park near them, and they won't have to hike it in from the back forty. Here is an example.

Normally, this pisses me off to no end. If your vehicle is so damn precious, then leave it at home and walk. I can't tell you how badly I want to squeeze into that spot on the right so he, and I KNOW it's a guy, can't get out. Now, I would be doing this just to piss him off, so not a good idea, but would he have the right to be mad? I mean, he isn't parking between the lines, so why should he be mad at me if I did the same? I'm guessing he wouldn't see it that way. There were plenty of spots and he wasn't right up front, so this particular incident didn't really bother me, but it was a good example of what pushes me to want to do something that will only end up in me getting my ass kicked. So instead, I just write about the person here. But someday, someone is going to push me so far that I, I, well, I don't know, but I'm guessing I will say something that isn't very nice to them, under my breath when they are nowhere near me.